Stubborn Liberal

These are the rants and raves of a stubborn-headed, midwestern, baby boomer, liberal, wife, mother, and grandmother. My goals are to speak my mind and educate others about some of the events in our world.

....All states cleanse their voter rolls of the deceased and people who
have moved. But few do so based on how often a person casts a ballot. In
fact, one of the claims in the lawsuit is that the practice of doing so
violates federal law: Keary McCarthy, president of Innovation Ohio, says Husted has taken purging the voter rolls a step too far....

...a Reuters survey shows that it seems to
be giving a boost to Republicans in the state's largest metropolitan
areas. In Ohio’s three largest counties that include the cities of
Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Columbus, roughly twice as many voters have
been removed from the rolls in Democratic-leaning neighborhoods as in
Republican neighborhoods. Just another effort to shave a percentage
point or two off Democratic turnout...
The Ohio Republicans are cheating again.

Monday, May 23, 2016

You can be certain, that if Gov. Kasich and his appointees are in charge, Ohio citizens are getting hurt.

The Dispatch has a story showing how the Kasich administration mismanaged federal foreclosure money. Despite warnings from various officials, the Republican Kasich administration went ahead with their opinion of how money should be spent. As a result, according to the Dispatch---

'....likely cost the
state tens of millions of dollars in federal assistance for a state that continues to have one of
the worst foreclosure rates in the nation....'

And if that wasn't enough on Kasich's failure to help Ohioans, Plunderbund notes:

...Kasich Extends Ohio’s Sub-Par Job Growth To 41 Straight MonthsThe sad news for Ohio following the new April data and the revisions
to prior 2016 months, Mr. Zeller said today, is that Ohio has gained
only 2,400 jobs during the first four months of 2016.

“Ohio’s job growth rate between April 2015 and April 2016 fell to an
anemic 1.24%, while the USA national job growth rate for April 2016 was
also a slowing 1.88%,” Zeller note. April 2016 marks the 41st
consecutive month when Job growth under current Gov. John Kasich was
below the USA national average.....

....Mr. Zeller said the “horrible April 2016 Ohio job figures wiped out
prior increases, and once again moved Ohio to a position where it has
34,100 fewer jobs today than it had in June 2007, the Ohio peak
employment month prior to the ‘Great Recession.'”

Monday, January 04, 2016

...PolitiFact was able to trace the footage back to the Italian television network RepubblicaTV. On May 3, 2014,
the network posted footage of Moroccans crossing the border into
Melilla, one of two enclaves on the Moroccan coast that are held by
Spain. Migrants who cross the border there are essentially entering
territory held by a European Union nation, even though they are still on
the African continent. (It can also be seen posted by a YouTube user here.)

The RepubblicaTV video is time-stamped May 1, 2014. According to the
description posted by the network (and using Google Translate) the video
was released by the Interior Ministry in Madrid, showing an "onslaught
of hundreds of migrants to the wall that separates the Spanish enclave
of Melilla from Morocco. About 800 tried to cross the border on May 1st.
Those who failed to escape the control of the Civil Guard were hanging
on the barriers for six hours before being rejected."

Incredible! If you can't find an honest piece of evidence to support your lies about immigrants, borrow some video from somewhere else in the world. This is absolutely disgusting.

Saturday, December 05, 2015

...It is a moral outrage and a national disgrace that civilians can legally
purchase weapons designed specifically to kill people with brutal speed
and efficiency. These are weapons of war, barely modified and
deliberately marketed as tools of macho vigilantism and even
insurrection. America’s elected leaders offer prayers for gun victims
and then, callously and without fear of consequence, reject the most
basic restrictions on weapons of mass killing, as they did on Thursday.
They distract us with arguments about the word terrorism. Let’s be
clear: These spree killings are all, in their own ways, acts of
terrorism....

...Worse, politicians abet would-be killers by creating gun markets for
them, and voters allow those politicians to keep their jobs. It is past
time to stop talking about halting the spread of firearms, and instead
to reduce their number drastically — eliminating some large categories
of weapons and ammunition.

It is not necessary to debate the peculiar wording of the Second
Amendment. No right is unlimited and immune from reasonable regulation....

If these elected officials refuse to listen to the American people, we must vote their asses out of offices. We cannot allow this to continue.

Why are some politicians allowing an organization to dictate legislation on guns? Is it just so that they get their 100% rating from them?

Thursday, October 29, 2015

....Results from the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, for Ohio show that
38 percent of fourth-graders are proficient in reading and 45 percent in math.

In eighth grade, 36 percent of students scored proficient in reading and 35 percent in math.

While higher than the national average, Ohio’s results were lower than the state’s 2013 NAEP
scores. Ohio scores have shown no gain in more than a decade....

Teachers and students are spending less time involved in instruction and learning, while more time is used in test preparation and testing. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that testing has taken over a large part of the school year and that cuts down on reading and math time. On top of that, students and teachers have become anxious about testing days, and performance has been damaged. There is just too much emphasis on testing.

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Mary Numair took down Planned Parenthood protesters in quite an unusual, but awesome way.

According to BuzzFeed News,
the 29-year-old Oregon copywriter and Planned Parenthood supporter
noticed protesters outside a local clinic in Portland. After trying to
approach them multiple times, she opted for a more creative route.

On Oct. 25, Numair arrived at the protest with a sign that read,
"Dear P.P., Thanks for helping me with my yeast infections." In a tweet,
she said she broke up the protest by chanting the words "yeast
infections."

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

How would John Kasich help veterans? Vouchers!!! CNN had Kasich's response. (Vouchers which seem to be his solution for everything, including schools.)

Vouchers would be a bad idea. Vouchers would not cover all of the various conditions that veterans might have. Many of our veterans suffer from PTSD and most doctors don't have experience in dealing with it.

Kasich also suggested bringing in businesses to help solve problems. This is just another ploy to get his wealthy friends involved. When a business takes over an agency, profit $$$$$$ is their only motivation.

There are better ways to care for our veterans------

1. Stop having unnecessary wars!2. Fully fund health care for veterans (Republican cuts to the program have destabilized the veteran health care programs.).

Kasich has suggested he wants more boots on the ground in those ongoing wars in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan. Kasich's idea is part of the Republican strategy of unending, continuous war, and it would only make veteran health care worse.

Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Gov. John Kasich isn't in Ohio. Kasich is spending his time out of the state promoting his candidacy for President. Unfortunately, Kasich's talking points are based on fables, lies, and exaggerations.

> There is no 'Ohio miracle' in this state. People are still unemployed and underemployed. Kasich's JobsOhio brought some jobs in, but many of them are low paying ones. Bringing in more Walmarts doesn't lift citizens out of poverty! Many of those companies that have received money and/or tax credits from JobsOhio (aka 'RobsOhio), have not kept their promises about job creation. Kasich's cronies are laughing while they are making money from our tax dollars.

> The charter school scandals just keep growing. While Kasich and Republicans promise to put in reforms and regulations, nothing has been done. If Kasich and the Republicans continue to get big money campaign donations from charter operators, they won't stop the money train. Ohio's charter schools have failed our children and taxpayers. With the latest scandal of David Hansen's numbers manipulation of charter school results, Ohioans continue to lose trust in the Kasich administration. Below you will find just a few of the articles about how John Kasich is ruining public education in Ohio.

> Women's health in Ohio has come under attack from Kasich and the Republicans. Health clinics that provide gynecological exams have closed and women's lives are in danger. Planned Parenthood clinics have closed across the state because Republicans just want to get into the private lives of women and their decisions.

> Kasich's attacks on teachers and educators have been disrespectful and awful. Why does Kasich hate teachers so much? Is he jealous of their education, and influence, or is he just trying to control a profession made up primarily of women. Kasich's comments about banning teacher lounges shows you that he has no idea what teachers do.

I could go on and on, but time won't allow. I suggest you visit Plunderbund to find out all the truth about John Kasich.

Tuesday, September 08, 2015

I'm old enough to remember the war in Vietnam. I can recall many young people that returned from war injured or dead. Being in a war is something I personally have never experienced, but I know relatives and friends that suffered through the physical and mental scars of war.

Republican candidate, Donald Trump, thinks he knows what it was like in a war.

Donald J. Trump, who received draft deferments through much
of the Vietnam War, told the author of a forthcoming biography that he
nevertheless “always felt that I was in the military” because of his
education at a military-themed boarding school.
Mr. Trump said that his experience at the New York Military Academy,
an expensive prep school where his parents had sent him to correct poor
behavior, gave him “more training militarily than a lot of the guys that
go into the military.”

Hey, he wore a uniform and did marching drills—it's just like having been in Vietnam...

If someone minimizes your war experience, they'd have no qualms about sending your sons and daughters to war. Don't trust anyone that has plans to put 'boots on the ground' in a war. It appears that every Republican candidate, especially those that received deferments, are ready, willing, and able to start a war with your son or daughter in battle.

Ohio state Rep. John Becker has made a career attempting to pronounce
what others may or may not do with their reproductive organs. Throughout
he tenure in the state legislature, nothing has been top of the mind
for John Becker quite like what people should and should not be doing
with their genitalia.....

....Now Becker is peddling a proposal in the Ohio General Assembly to ban
abortions in cases where the fetus is determined to have Down syndrome....

It puts one in mind of the old George Carlin joke about how much conservatives care about the unborn, “but once you’re born…”

Yes, ladies, John Becker wants to prevent you from having an abortion if there is something wrong with the fetus. Will women need to call John Becker from the gynecologist's office to get permission for an abortion?